Libharu

Jul 20, 2023

Haru Free PDF Library

HARU is a free, cross platform, open-sourced software library for generating PDF. It supports the following features.

  1. Generating PDF files with lines, text, images.
  2. Outline, text annotation, link annotation.
  3. Compressing document with deflate-decode.
  4. Embedding PNG, Jpeg images.
  5. Embedding Type1 font and TrueType font.
  6. Creating encrypted PDF files.
  7. Using various character set ISO8859-1~16, MSCP1250~8, KOI-8R.
  8. Supporting CJK fonts and encodings.

You can add the feature of PDF creation by using HARU without understanding complicated internal structure of PDF.



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